Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I want to delete my Google account but i have a specific fear (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What if i forget to delete some old accounts associated with the google email address? Will someone be able to take control of them? And my data will be there forever too.

What method do you use to find the old accounts to delete? Unfortunately i delete all emails after receiving them.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Not exactly the same scenario, but close enough for proof of concept.

https://inti.io/p/when-privacy-expires-how-i-got-access